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A prudent person would have a cheap gun to give up to the stormtroopers IF all they were doing was collecting weapons.One armed citizen at the front door will only die fighting against a squad in body armor with automatic weapons.The framers warned against standing armies as a danger to freedom.If two dozen armed neighbors,or better two hundred armed citizens ,were observing and supporting from cover,the police would turn tail as in the LA riots.

and a better gun hidden but accesible,,

And lots of cooking spices to mess with the dogs scenting.

Communication can also be helpful;there are probably 50 million CB radios sitting in closets and attics unused. If those radios were to hook those radio up to a simple wire antenna and car battery ,then uin disasters people would have another way to share information.And the little FRS radios too. I know they could all be jammed but that requires a bigger committment of totalitarian resources.

I still believe the push to super-expensive digital encrypted police radios is more about preventing Joe Public and "maverick" reporters from hearing donut runs and police abuses .How long until police live in special neighborhoods as in eastern Europe?

No, NO et al did not get them all. Actually, there was quite a ruckus behind the scenes, with various volunteering police departments threatening to pull out if the order was not recinded - which it eventually was. Seems that only the CHP (California Highway Patrol) cops, donating their services to the area, were the ones to actually do the house-to-house confiscations; they certainly did not "get them all".

They did get some, however. Some house-to-house inspections did take place, but seems (from what little info actually got out) the guns taken were literally in the hands of the owners, visible. I'm sure some were denied/hidden. However, anyone who was found holding one (and many people have only one) was at the wrong end of a heavily armed group demanding compliance under threat of death. One old lady refused to turn over her little revolver, so they body-slammed her (dislocating a shoulder, among other injuries).

I'm just wondering, how did they get them all?? Surely people denied having them or otherwise hid them? My husband would never give up his legal guns "just because I said so".

Individuals were given no choice. The authorities searched houses, if they so much as suspected there was a firearm present. Plus many folks likely weren't hiding their guns, but rather displaying them as a deterrent. Plus the "You loot, We shoot" signs in the neighborhoods. However I'm sure they did not get them all. I don't know if they went to local guns stores and looked at the 4473s or not. If they did, that is yet another violation, of a mere federal law. But who cares about a mere law when one is raping the Constitution? Still it would be interesting to know if they used the de facto registration records maintained by the dealers.